In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social
norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies …

Social norms have become one of the most promising approaches that use an informal
social control to ensure a desirable social order in open multi-agent systems. In these …

In this section I will first describe the various uses of the word “norm” in different scientific
arenas before stating the view I use. After this I will take a closer look at the work on norms I …

Although normative systems, or social laws, have proved to be a highly influential approach
to coordination in multi-agent systems, the issue of compliance to such normative systems …

An agent message is an attempted action upon the information state of the receiver that, if
successful, would cause the receiver to move to a new information state. A model of …

A key focus of contemporary agent-oriented research and engineering is on open multiagent
systems composed of truly autonomous, interacting agents. This poses new challenges, as …

Norm-governed agents act according to norms such as obligations, permissions or
prohibitions. In their practical reasoning, they are not only influenced by what they actually …

Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the
semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of …

The increasing presence of autonomous (software) systems in open environments in
general, and the complex interactions taking place among them in particular, require flexible …

Norms are utilised in agent societies to encourage acceptable behaviour by the participating
agents. They can be established or revised from the top-down (authority) or from the bottom …